Here I Am!

Life without a video is very difficult. Don't tell me to get a DVD recorder; I wouldn't know what to do with it. I want to go and buy a new video but I'm a little embarassed - will the clerk at Harvey Norman laugh at me (to my face, not just behind my back after he takes my cash) and point me in the direction of a pawn shop when I ask to see the VCRs?

I was able to catch a whole episode of TT tonight because I am a pathetic loser with no life. Also, I smell bad. Watching GN's expresionless face I again asked myself if she was a fan of botox or just devoid of any real emotion. I've heard that it's still up for debate and probably won't be confirmed until someone catches her smiling.

So, Coles is going to be taken over by a slice and dice firm. Do we care? Didn't they just shut down an office in NSW and force coastal bogans to head to the Southern Highlands for work? Well, apparently they're now "the little Aussie battler". Yep, seriously, with Walmart in the picture Australians should forget that Coles is an evil empire in its own right and step up to support the Australianess of this retail chain. Righty-ho. Dick Smith was brought on the show to give his opinions on Australian owned business which apparently go something like this: wealth should be kept in Australia, not sent out of country; the future of our top tier wealthy depends on it! How about asking an Australian who isn't insanely rich their opinion on a *possible* Walmart takeover of Coles. Oh, wait, they did. The bogans were very angry and declared they'd never shop at Coles again.

Hey, low income earners? Fuck you! Who needs your stinkin' investment in home brand instant noodles anyway?

In other tv land hatred, I have twice seen the brand power, brand choice, choice power, whatever ads with the dickhead Daddo and the Wheel of Torture host promoting their family's consumption of ready made pasta meals. I HATE the bitch who interviews them, the girl from that show I hate about nurses and doctors.... Too lazy to look it up now but you all know who I'm talking about. What the hell is up with D grade celebrities doing product informercials that air when regular people watch tv? Don't they know that their official time slot is between the hours of 2 and 6am? And they should be promoting weight loss aids and sleazy property gurus.

Stop making me hate chocolate drinks and pasta! Stop it! I buy this stuff and don't need to think of your ugly mugs when I consume it! Hello, bulimia!

Meanies

I know that TT is full of shit, honestly I know but there has to be a limit to
its cuntishness. Last night's episode featured two horrible parents who couldn't raise a
cactus properly, let alone a child, whinging about how hard done by they are and how their
children are more than they can cope with. Call me old fashioned, but if you raise your
children with lax morals and very few boundaries (hey, I don't have proof but their presence
in a TT story is veeeeery incriminating) then you shouldn't be too suprised when they
start acting out within the sketchy peramters you've set them and inevitably fuck up.

TT having witnessed the success of a few weeks back which saw a bogan mother run
after her daughter outside the daughter's lover's umpteenth court appearance and proclaim
the love she probably doesn't show her in private, spurred GN and her merry band of thugs to
try that angle again. They found two parents of two very obnoxious teenagers and rather than
pointing the finger at the mothers (naturally, there was no father around) declared that
they were "naming and shaming" the teens for behaving as you'd expect badly brought up teens to behave.

Normally I'm all for the public embarassment of bogans who think that an appearance on
TT is something to be celebrated, but those girls were teenagers; one was only 14.
I'm guessing they were asked to boast about their exploits and, being teenagers of very
limited experience, thought that they were rather clever to share their pathetic stories
with the public. The girls aren't mature enough to realise that this is the sort of thing
that impacts badly on future job prospects and social interactions. Their mothers, however, despite lacking a few dozen IQ points, are perfectly capable of realising this.

If adults want to flaunt their shortcomings for my amusement, I'll rejoice, but I think TT and the mothers of those girls behaved rather badly in setting them up like that.